Gas range top



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GAS RANGE TOP Filed Feb. 10, 1930 IN VEN TOR.

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ATTORNEY.

Patented Sept, 15, 1931 warren STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAIII H. GUENTHER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO DETROIT-MICHIGAN STOVE COMPANY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF'MICHIGAN GAS RANGE TOP Application filed February 10, 1830. Serial No. 427,086. x

I; made of a solid sheet of material provided with large apertures for the burner plates, as contrasted with those made in the form of a grille or gridiron, provided with portions integral therewith for supporting the burner plates.

In gas ranges tops of the so-called fast cooking type in which a substantially solid sheet of material is supported above the burners, great difiiculty has been experienced in providing fines for the escape of the products of combustion. It has been proposed to provide a number of apertures or holes running through the top or cover, from the bottom to the top thereof, to provide Hues for the products of combustion from the burners, but these have been found objectionable because, in the event that the housewife places a cooking vessel over these holes, the latter are stopped up and their object is defeated.

It is an object of the present invention, therefore, to provide a top or cover in which apertures or fines are provided for the purpose above described, the apertures, however, extending through the side wall of the cover so that they cannot be stopped up by having cooking vessels placed over them.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a cover plate whose top surface is above the top surface of the frame and which is provided with a ledge below the top surface of the cover plate, the vertical wall between the ledge and the top surface being provided with apertures to form fiues for the purpose above described.

A further object is to provide agas stove in which means are provided which will prevent the formation of a dead heat space between the, burners and the cover or top of the stove.

Other objects will readily occur to those skilled in the art upon reference to the following description and the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 shows a gas range of a common type provided with the top or cover'plate of the present invention. i

l lig. 2 is a plan view of my cover plate ant Fig. 3 is a section of the frame and cover plate of a gas range, a burner being shown beneath the latter;

Referring to the drawings, a gas range A provided with the usual splasher plate 8 and the oven 9, has a frame 10 having an internal rabbeted edge 11in which is disposed the cover plate of my invention. The latter has a body portion 12, and a ledge 13, the top surface of the ledge being flush with the top surface of the frame 10, andbeing below the top surface of the body portion 12. A vertical wall 14, spacing the ledge 13 from the body portion 14, is provided with a plurality of fines or apertures 15, and as will be seen in Fig. 3, the prod nets of combustion from the burners 16 will escape through these flues 15 so that proper circulation of air to and from the burners will not be precluded, even when the burner plates 12 are as shown,rdisposed over the burner holes or apertures 12b, and even when a portion of a cooking vessel 17, shown diagrammatically, is disposed in a manner heretofore considered objectionable, that is to say, over the flues 15 in the cover plate.

In view of the fact'that the flues 15 of the present invention open at the side of the cover as well as at the top, the cooking vessel does not obstruct the flow of gases through the flues, the gases escaping around the edge of the cooking vessel.

It will be seen, therefore, that the present invention provides a construction in which the products of combustion can readily escape from the burner in the case of closed or fast cooking top stoves, even when a cooking vessel has been moved to a position herei tofore considered objectionable.

Now having described the invention and the preferred embodiment thereof, it is to be understood that the said invention is to be limited, not to the specific details herein set forth, but only by the scope of the'cla-im which follows.

In a gas range a burner section provided With a peripheral top frame 10 having a large central opening therein, a cover for said opening, seated in the edge of the frame opening and forming substantially the entire effective top of the burner section and provided with a plurality of relatively small openings for the lids, gas burners under said lid openings, said cover having a main top or body portion 12 above the top surface of the frame, and having a narrow edge or ledge 13 disposed below the top portion, there being a substantially vertical Wall 14 connecting the ledge and the top portion, said cover being further provided With a plurality of closely spaced apertures 15, extending from the under surfaces of the cover and thru the Wall 14 to provide lines for the escape of the products of combustion from said burners, and being also provided With a plurality of lids 12b in said lid openings, the top surface of the lids being flush With the upper surface of the cover body portion.

WILLIAM H. GUENTHER. 

